수술실 간호사의 병원감염관리에 대한 실천정도에 영향을 미치는 요인

Abstract

Pusposes: This study is to identify relations between knowledge, awareness and practice on nosocomial infection of operating room nurses and affecting factors in order to provide basic data for effective nosocomial infection management of operating room nurses. Method: The subjects of this study were 155 nurses who worked in operating rooms of six medical centers and data were collected eight days from October 23. 2006 to 30 of the same month. The questionnaire includes a total of 125 questions which were categorized into 15 on knowledge on nosocomial infection amangement, 49 on awareness and 49 on practice. Reliability was Cronbach's Alpa= .9296 and the data collected were analysed with use of SPSS 12.0 program by a descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe, Pearson's correlation, and stepwise multiple regression. Results: 1. As a result of analysing knowledge, awareness and practice on nosocomial infection of the subjects, it was found that the mean knowledge of nosocomial infection control was 11.42, the mean awareness was 4.88 and the mean practice was 4.56. 2. As a result of analysing differences in practices of nosocomial infection control according to general characteristics of the subjects, it was found that there was a significant difference in marrige(t=3.957, p=.048), educational background(F=3.691, p=.027), position(F=6.588, p=.002), types of hospitals(t=4.857, p=.029), number of nurses(F=4.243, p=.007), number of education(F=3.069, p=.030), presence of management council(t=6.397, p=.012) and presence of management manual(t=6.961, p=.009). 3. As a result of analysing the relations between knowledge, awareness and practice on nosocomial infection management of the subjects, it was found that there was a significant correlations between knowledge and practice(r=.389, p=.000) and between awareness and practice(r=.389, p=.000). 4. As factors affecting the management and practice, awareness of washing hand was 16.5% and 28.5% was accounted for by knowledge and position. Conclusion: In consideration of results above, it was found that knowledge on nosocomial infection management, awareness of washing hands and positions were affecting factors. Therefore, this study suggests that knowledge and awareness on nosocomial infection prevention and management of operating room nurses should be improved through consistent education. and support of administrator's of hospitals is needed.